Sentence examples similar to second class railway from inspiring English sources

However, here am I in uniform, two pips on my shoulder and a first class railway ticket to Leeds, to Beckett's Park, to the Royal Army Medical Corp training college.

"We have a first-class railway.

When he was a university teacher – one of a handful of blacks at that time – he travelled each day with workers in crowded third-class railway carriages.

His second shock came at Pietermaritzburg when, holding a first-class railway ticket, he was pushed out of the compartment by a white guard and left shivering in a dark waiting room.

A few days later, while traveling to Pretoria, he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and left shivering and brooding at the rail station in Pietermaritzburg.

He was modest: he eschewed his inherited right to use von before his name, he rarely referred to his many honours, and he preferred to travel by third-class railway carriage.

The killing of the stalwart old banker Thomas Briggs in his first-class railway carriage as he travelled home to his suburban villa in Hackney was thus dubbed by the press of 1864 "this terrible drama of real life".

But Craig strikes some very erotic sparks from Vesper Lynd, with some loaded bantering over dinner in a first-class railway compartment, and finally, from him, a dead-straight passionate declaration of love.

At first glance, they could be by Francis Bacon.Paintings of laundresses, drinkers, the occupants of a third-class railway carriage are all memorable works of art, particularly his magnificent, almost monochrome "Ecce Homo", in which Christ stands accused before a mob, wearing a crown of thorns and long robe.

The beautifully restored cafe is decked out with seats taken from venerable first-class railway carriages, has a trained chef at the helm, a menu packed with local produce, and serves cream teas in the afternoon and dinner in the evening.

Shriver explained to Wallace that, in the course of his Peace Corps duties, he had managed to sleep restfully on a German trolley-repair truck running full blast with acetylene torches and the like, and in the corridor of a crowded Middle European third-class railway car, and on the deck of a small Corsican boat swarming with restless Senegalese soldiers in hobnailed boots.